Digital video broadcasting is increasingly being adopted all over the world. The video broadcasters would require that the viewable content of the pay channels be protected from unauthorized copying and distribution by subscribers, which is "copyright protection". The subscribers would require that they be not wrongfully implicated by the broadcasters and thus ensure "customer's rights protection". In this paper we present an integrated solution to address the copyright protection and customer's rights protection for a video broadcasting environment. The copyright protection is addressed using a mask based watermarking technique and customer's rights protection is obtained through the use of an interactive watermarking protocol.

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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering